Winter goes to spring, and warblers steal the sound of birds. In the grass and trees on both sides of the post road in Youzhou, you can often see flocks of small yellow warblers shuttling among them, but unfortunately the northern cool folk wind is rough, there is no literati who want to listen to the warbler crying "yellow spring" in the spring, a carriage on the road slowly goes north, the woman in the carriage has a warbler nest plucked from the low branches, and occasionally opens the curtain to take a look at the scenery along the way. Along the way, in order to be in a hurry, there are few stops in the city, not in front of the village and not in the store, the most embarrassing thing about the woman is that people have three urgency, she wants to go to the toilet for the first time, her legs are clamped, she gritted her teeth and persevered for half an hour, he has already noticed the abnormality of him but does not speak, when she finally can't hold back, she wants to get off the car, and so she bows her head and turns back to sit back in the carriage, and heard him say a bad joke, he said that there was an official in the past micro-service private visit to observe public opinion, as a result of the stomach discomfort in the wilderness, every time a little thought to ask the groom to help him find a quiet place to take off his pants, the groom for the official master to find a few places one after another, but wait for the official master to untie the belt and squat down every time, I didn't want to think about it again, and then the groom said that he didn't find it whenever the official asked if he was looking for a place, so the official finally couldn't support it, jumped off the carriage and ran while taking off finally comfortable, and when he came back, he felt that it was really a feng shui treasure. She picked the nest of the warbler woven by pine needles and grass on the way back, and smashed it hard after hearing it, and was gently taken over by the man who drew a circle with one hand, and handed it back to her with a smile, and said that he had made up for his own troubles, saying that when he traveled, he inadvertently went to the toilet once, and heard the movement next door was not small, and he was bored, so he laughed a few words brother, do you eat garlic, but after a while, his thatched house gave a woman with a face like frost to take a sword to tear down the small door, so scared that he almost fell into the pit, and hurriedly used his hand to protect the crotch, in the end, the woman threatened to cut off his three legs with a cold face. If it weren't for the fact that he was in a hurry and suddenly let go of his hand, so that the woman could have a good understanding of what it means to be majestic and scare her away, I am afraid that she would inevitably have a full meal.

Pei Nanwei rarely showed a superficial smugness when he said this bastard thing, and he couldn't cry or laugh, so he didn't bother with him anymore. The dignified Beiliang prince has been so embarrassed, she is a woman who is no longer the concubine of the vassal king, so she is too lazy to pretend to be a heroine. Xu Fengnian naturally didn't say anything about those important military information, but some harmless secrets were told to her, for example, Wu Lingsu, the king of Qingcheng in Qingyang Palace, is now in Beijing to be sealed, and he has taken half a cup of soup from the feather-clothed minister of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and he can rule the river, hold great power, and take charge of the north and south gates together. It is rumored that Zhao Danxia, who is in charge of teaching, has built the most difficult Jade Emperor Tower in Taoism, and the old heavenly master Zhao Xiyi and his son jointly soared, and then the imperial court immediately allowed Zhao Danping, the prime minister of Qingci in the capital, to serve as the head of the southern Taoist sect, and made an exception to give the young Taoist priest Zhao Ningshen of the Heavenly Master's Mansion to enter the court as an official, and became a more eye-catching servant of the Son of Heaven than Huangmenlang. There is also a matter that has nothing to do with the temple, it is purely a matter of the rivers and lakes, the nameless old swordsman who likes to eat swords finally came out with a sword, but it was not the king of Emperor Wu City Xianzhi who personally made a move, but let the four disciples block the sword one by one, the first three apprentices who were recognized as talented were unable to resist, and the last was the big apprentice Yu Groom, who had been covered by his junior brother, blocked the sword with a knife, shaking the rivers and lakes, and this swordsman was immediately regarded as a top master who could let General Gu Jiantang fight with all his might.

Hearing these hidden inside stories that made Jianghu Erlang's blood boil, Pei Nanwei couldn't raise the slightest interest, and went in and out of his left ear, just as a small joke to relieve boredom.

Near the side stop, the carriage stopped for a while in Qingxian County, Xu Fengnian deliberately took Pei Nanwei to eat a local unique Qingjing rice in a restaurant, which is a rice steamed by mashing the leaves of the southern candle tree to extract juice and soak rice, its color is green, and the aroma is attractive, but the big blue and white bowl of rice is nearly a foot wide, Pei Nanwei was dumbfounded, she just ate a small half bowl and really couldn't swallow it, Xu Fengnian's own bowl was swept away, so he took Pei Nanwei's rice bowl unceremoniously, and still relished. Xu Yanbing did not enter the restaurant before, and then when he appeared, there was a middle-aged man in satin casual clothes beside him, and Xu Fengnian, who was still eating with his head down, beckoned, and motioned for the strange-looking man to sit down, and the man sat down and said softly: "The last general will see His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Xu Fengnian put away the empty bowl and chopsticks, lazily leaned on the shoddy and slightly rugged back of the chair, and joked with a smile: "Huangfu Fang, what else is going on, you have changed from the captain of Guoyi to the general of Youzhou, who is in charge of the military power of a state, should you still be used to it?"

Huangfu Liang, who is already the new general of Youzhou, does not have the fear and modesty of ordinary generals and captains, but only said in a deep voice: "I dare not disappoint Your Highness when I die!"

Xu Fengnian nodded and said: "Chen Xiliang is managing the salt administration, if he doesn't ask you for help, you don't have to be sentimental, let those uncontrolled places be arrogant, when Chen Xiliang opens his mouth to borrow troops from you to kill people, you do it again, don't be soft when the time comes." ”

The rising speed of the Huangfu scale in Beiliang Road is second only to Lingzhou Thorn Shi Xu Beitong, and he is a well-deserved confidant of His Royal Highness, but the price is really chilling, that is to watch his family die. Such an official addiction is so crazy that the reputation of the emperor in Youzhou officialdom can be imagined. It's just that Huangfu Scales is fighting against the water in Beiliang, and no one wants to sit at the same table with him if this kind of insidious villain wants to form a party, this kind of puppet that is most suitable for borrowing a knife to kill people, it can be said that whoever uses it can rest assured, but in Beiliang, Xu Fengnian is qualified to hold a knife. If you say too much, you will lose, and the emperor has always believed in exchanging credit for official positions, even if he is prosperous, it also gives people the illusion of being depressed. Xu Fengnian didn't care whether the Youzhou general had eaten it or not, he still ordered a green essence rice for him, and said with a smile: "You have integrated the power of the rivers and lakes in Youzhou well, my sister's evaluation of you is not low, and I will allow you to stretch your hands and feet to Liangzhou generously in the future." By the way, if you pay for the meal, I will treat you as a landlord. ”

Stood up and sent His Royal Highness the prince away, after sitting down, the emperor took a big bite of rice, and after the last time, he took out all the gold and silver in the eyes of the guy in the restaurant to look at the fool, put it on the table, and walked away.

Friendship of landlords!

These gold and silver that they carried with them bought the military power of the entire Youzhou, is it expensive or cheap?

The carriage drove out of Qingxian County, Xu Fengnian lay comfortably in the carriage, belching with Erlang's legs crossed, Pei Nanwei sneered: "Isn't this notorious Huangfu scale exactly what you call a person with no bottom line, don't you also use it comfortably?"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "How do you know that he has no bottom line? Huangfu scales, and even Chu Lushan, are actually not as simple as the outside world thinks, they and good people are naturally not good at all, but if there is no bottom line, if I want to say, compared to those who are prostitutes and prostitutes while talking about the country and the people, there is a much lower line." If you think of yourself too much, it's easy not to treat others as people. If you don't treat yourself as a human being, you can leave a little bit of innocence. To make an inappropriate analogy, Wudang Mountain and Longhu Mountain are both Taoist ancestral courts, the Huang Zi nobles of the Heavenly Master's Mansion are full of immortal energy, unattainable, not high-ranking officials and dignitaries can not enter that door, the highest ranking old Taoist on Wudang Mountain, there is no immortal spirit, but can talk to the people and pilgrims, who do you say is more humane? Huangfu scale for me as a lackey, whether it is His Royal Highness the prince of the world, or Huangfu scale himself, I will not deny it, but the bitterness in the stomach of Huangfu scale, if you really want to let this Youzhou general pour bitter water, you can't bear to listen. ”

Pei Nanwei said flatly: "I don't want to hear it either." ”

Xu Fengnian sighed: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and only the breeze of turning books for no reason knows." ”

Pei Nanwei was stunned and said with a smile: "I can't see it, you will also be sad?"

Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes and said: "I'm a talented person who makes 100 good poems a year." ”

Pei Nanwei squinted and said: "Buying poems and copying poems is also counted?"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "If it weren't for me buying the poems of these Northern Liang Han scholars with a lot of money, do you think they would have enough to go to the capital thousands of miles away to catch the exam?"

Pei Nanwei asked rhetorically: "Has anyone ever said good things about you and remembered your kindness?"

Xu Fengnian pursed his lips, a little unusually embarrassed, "I guess I didn't hear it." ”

Pei Nanwei sneered: "Moreover, the north is cool and barren, and the scholars are even more withered, and as a result, they were all presented to the imperial court with your hands, your Royal Highness, the prince, is really a big belly!"

Xu Fengnian touched his belly, which could support two large bowls of blue and white rice, and laughed at himself: "The belly is not small. But good people have good rewards, aren't there nearly a thousand foreign scholars coming to Beiliang to take root at the moment?"

Youzhou Qingzhan County further north is the border Rouge County, the reason why it is called Rouge County, is that Rouge's mother-in-law is famous for being handsome, even in the Central Plains has long heard its name, some rich old men in Jiangnan Province are proud of taking a concubine in a room is a young Rouge County woman, many Rouge County women who are a little beautiful and unwilling to suffer, most of them like to leave the border pass to go to the rich Central Plains, never to return, even if many of them are poor women fall into the dust, they will never look back, and are ridiculed by the Liyang court as the flower in the wall and the fragrance outside the wall. There is another Rouge County with the same name in Rouge County, which is rich in beautiful women, and it is really a blessing that a man has cultivated for several lifetimes. Youzhou officials don't have a rouge woman as a concubine or a maid in the room, so they don't have the face to go out to greet their colleagues. Pei Nanwei may be tired of the cumbersome hat, in the dusk into the Rouge County Town Inn for the night, abandoned the hat, was fortunate to recognize her face of the men and women are shocked, today is the first year of the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival is a big festival, the government and the people have fun, go out together to enjoy the lanterns, Youzhou is obviously very different from Lingzhou with a granary, the street lamp market is lively, but there is no bit of brilliant momentum, men and women clothing is also simple, not as good as Lingzhou like luxury, Youzhou is neither the Liangzhou where the Xu family is located, nor is it a relatively stable and comfortable Lingzhou, has been ridiculed by Youzhou officials as a stepmotherOf course, I will not forget to bring one or two rouge county women who have been purchased with a lot of money, as a stepping stone to the advancement of strange officialdom, how tacky it is to send silver, in case it is too much to give away the white eyes, and the woman can be both elegant and affordable.

Xu Fengnian and Pei Nanwei walked side by side, a bit of a talented woman, in the night, they can only be reflected by the lights, a little farther away, they can't really see Pei Nanwei's appearance, which didn't cause much of a sensation, but some people who have seen her face and figure will not go away, not in their own bowl, if they get closer and look at other people's bowls, they can also satisfy their hunger. A few idle wandering ruffians are not small, they want to take advantage of the crowd to come and rub oil, and they are kicked out by Xu Fengnian and go far away, they are all small shrimps who are fierce and inward, dare not speak out, and they are the first to lose, and then they have converged a lot, originally they were going to pretend to call someone to beat the boy, but no one was willing to take a few glances at the beautiful and flying woman on the mural, so they gave up, and the official mansion in Youzhou usually turned a blind eye, but if he made trouble in the Lantern Festival Lantern Market, he must be arrested by the city patrol armor and peeled off several layers of skin。 There were three scholars walking in front of Xu Fengnian and Pei Nanwei, listening to the accent was the Central Plains scholar who went to Liang, and nine times out of ten they heard that the beauties of Rouge County were like clouds, and the beloved people who were at their fingertips on the street, so they came to try their luck. The three young scholars had already seen the beautiful woman of the young woman behind him, because of the etiquette and self-esteem, he was embarrassed to talk, so he had to slow down and deliberately let out his words, his voice was very loud, as if he was more than anyone there to talk to death, some said that he was related to a certain official in Lingzhou, and he would soon enter the county government as an official, and some said that it had always been the Liyang Dynasty that was watching the excitement of Beiliang with suspicion, and now that the restoration of Western Chu is imminent, Beiliang can finally take a bench and eat melon seeds, and sit down to take a look at the jokes of the imperial court. It is also said that since he was a child, he has longed for the iron horse Jinge of the side plug, which scholar Wanhu Hou, only then gave up his fame at his fingertips and wanted to come to this poor place to join the army.

Xu Fengnian heard a scholar mention the winner and loser of the Xichu Restoration who was chattering, smiled, stepped forward quickly, and took the initiative to ask: "This son, how do you know that the Restoration of Western Chu is destined to end miserably within half a year?"

The scholar who really had a bit of elegant temperament did not reply to Xu Fengnian, the bull's head was not in the horse's mouth, he glanced at Pei Nanwei, and introduced himself: "The kid is a disciple of the Fan family of Huansha County, Jiangnan Province. ”

Xu Fengnian also pushed the boat down the river and pretended to be surprised: "Huansha County Fan's family, that is the most famous county wang clan in the south of the old Northern Han Dynasty, I never thought that Fan Gongzi's family background is so prosperous, and the entire Beiliang can't pick out a few families, it must be those Taishou adults in our Beiliang who also want to be guests, it's an honor, it's an honor to meet Fan Gongzi!"

The rest of the scholars also hurriedly reported to their homes, it was the Shizao Zhou clan on the Dongyue Road. The remaining scholar was probably from a mediocre background, and he was indignant and speechless. In fact, the Huansha Fan family and the Shizao Zhou family flourished during the Spring and Autumn Period, and they were not a first-class gate valve with an unattainable threshold, as long as the local surname Fan was surnamed Zhou, most of them could climb up to relatives, and no one would really take it seriously. These two obviously also came to Beiliang, who did not have a wide vision, to pull the banner in order to fill the number indiscriminately. In this era when the slaves of the rich and noble families can be sharp enough to see through the deep family with a belt, such a clumsy trick is really not worth mentioning, and they obviously underestimate the Taoism of the officials of Beiliang. Beiliang is poor, but the poor are all those ordinary people who face the loess with their backs to the sky, and those who are officials are really not poor.

Xu Fengnian originally wanted to have fun with his words, but he didn't expect Pei Nanwei's words to be undoubtedly shocking, "What is your surname, what is the matter of the old lady?! The old lady only likes sturdy men over two hundred pounds, you all get out of the way and cool off!"

The three scholars were like being struck by lightning, and then they didn't dare to let go of one of them, and they slipped away.

Xu Fengnian stretched out her thumb to Pei Nanwei, she brushed the green silk of her sideburns, and when she turned her head, she curled the corners of her mouth, with a rare expression that the old lady would be invincible if she didn't make a move.

Xu Fengnian didn't open any pot and mentioned which pot, and sighed in admiration: "Beiliang is really a treasure of feng shui, and Sister Pei is also dyed with heroic spirit." ”

Pei Nanwei crossed his eyebrows coldly, kicked on the back of Xu Fengnian's shoes, and twisted it to death.

Xu Fengnian ate soft rather than hard, let alone pain, and muttered to himself: "It's only been half a year? Cao Changqing and Sun Xiji, the two remnants of Western Chu, joined forces, so it won't be so unhelpful, right?"

Pei Nanwei said coldly: "A lot of people will die." ”

Xu Fengnian's eyes were cold, and he said slowly: "Yes, many people will die." But you also have to know that there are so many people who shave their hair and escape from Zen in the Western Chu, who do not hesitate to close themselves in the cellar, escape into the mountains and forests to be wild elders, lose their minds and go crazy in the middle of the night and knock on the city to patrol the city and shout that they are all ghosts, and they are all worse than death, this group of lonely ghosts who never forget the Western Chu Dynasty can't wait to drag their families and their mouths to die heroically. Such a foolish remnant, you don't know how to evaluate it. ”

Pei Nanwei said hatefully: "They want to die as they deserve, and no one will stop them, but don't bother the innocent people who just want to live a stable life and sleep peacefully!"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "I always felt that you were lifeless, like the kind of female ghost wearing human skin who haunted the ancient temple in the deep mountains, but today I realized that you can still say a few words." Or if you stay in this Rouge County, maybe you'll become a big living person in the future. When do you miss listening to the reeds by the tide lake, just go back and see it. ”

Pei Nanwei said without hesitation: "Okay." ”

Xu Fengnian lost his mind for a moment, and he seemed to have said this light word to others. It's just that Xu Fengnian quickly returned to normal, nodded and smiled: "Then I can only show off my identity as the prince, say hello to Lord Taishou of Rouge County, and buy you a private house that will not be disturbed." ”

Xu Fengnian asked for directions and asked about the Taishou Mansion, but it happened that the county guard also took a large group of family members to go with the people, and the porter who had trained a pair of fiery eyes saw that he was not bad, so he let him sit in the small room at the side door, and waited for two hours, even the porter admired the patience of this young man, during which he repeatedly asked for warm tea and water, which was naturally Xu Fengnian borrowed the light of Pei Meiren on the rouge spectrum. When the county guard Hongshan returned from the excitement, he rubbed his eyes, he had set foot in the Beiliang Wangfu in his life, and he did not recognize the son, but he recognized the "servant" who could only stand, the general's personal guard Xu Yanbing! One year, the general inspected the border pass and passed through the county town of Rouge, and Hongshan was fortunate to meet him, and this person was actually qualified to sit and eat and drink with the general, and his memory was particularly vivid and profound. Xu Yanbing needs to stand, so who is the young man sitting and drinking tea, Hong Shandong is not a fool who lacks heart, he immediately brushed his sleeves, knelt on the ground, and met His Royal Highness the prince who came to the cold house, a large number of descendants of the Hong family who were crowded outside the door of the hut were wide-eyed, the older ones knew the sophistication of the people, and they were a little afraid, and the younger ones were full of innocent and childlike curiosity in their clean eyes. Don't look at the threshold of the Taishou Mansion of the parent official of a county is not low, but the biggest official hat among the officials who have received the official in the mansion so far is only the previous general of Youzhou. How big is His Royal Highness the Prince of the World? When this young man puts on the Zhenghuang python robe and becomes the king of Beiliang in the future, he will know how big the Dao is.

In the bookish study, Hong Shandong didn't have the courage to take a look at Pei Nanwei from beginning to end, knowing that this woman who didn't have a clear name would live in Rouge County, he was also surprised or unhappy, he Hong Shandong didn't mind worshipping her as a female Bodhisattva, this is what he should do, it may not be a merit, but since ancient times, if there is a little mistake, then his original smooth sailing career will come to an end? It's just that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World opened the golden mouth, so he Hongshan can only grit his teeth and squeeze out a smiling face to accept it. That night, Lord Taishou tossed out an elegant house with mountains and rivers, Xu Fengnian by the way asked the dead Shiyin to secretly say hello to the Rouge County spy, the dead Shiyin was a big spy with great power, and he was familiar with this kind of work, and he could do it without leakage. Then Xu Fengnian abandoned the carriage, which was already redundant, and rode out of the city overnight with Xu Yanbing, and rushed to the unfamiliar Reverse Horse Pass.

Pei Nanwei didn't forget to carry the hat when she got out of the carriage, there were only two elderly maids in the quiet house, she stood in the courtyard without saying a word, until she went to the room to sleep, lost the hat in the courtyard, and caught a glimpse of a few boxes of very delicate and ingenious precious rouge on the dressing cabinet in the house, and sneered: "It's all cumbersome." ”

What seems to be valuable, but how many are really valuable?